Sat.Aug 30, 2014 - Fri.Sep 05, 2014

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4 Tips to Writing eLearning Scripts That Sing

Association eLearning

'If you’re getting started on a new script for an eLearning course, you probably aren’t planning to create a “musical” experience. But maybe you should. A great song is relatable, the lyrics that get stuck in your head and you can recite them years later. Wouldn’t you like to write a script with that kind of impact? In a recent article in T+D magazine, author Cammy Bean provides several tips on scriptwriting that really resonate with me.

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eLearning: Adobe Captivate and Microsoft PowerPoint

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      What came first, the chicken or the egg? Wait. before answering that, let's rework that classic question with this: what comes first, the eLearning or the PowerPoint presentation? When developing eLearning, the content is often created in Microsoft PowerPoint first. I'm not going to get into what it takes to create visually compelling PowerPoint presentations (we have a  mini course for that ).

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12+ Reminders & Resources For Creating Your Virtual Learning Space

InSync Training

'Stop me if you''ve heard this one before. On second thought, don’t stop me. It bears repeating. And worth hearing over and over and over again, at least until virtual learning is second nature to all of us. When learning at a distance, whether in a virtual classroom or using eLearning, you need to create your personal learning environment - and it is probably not the same environment in which you work.

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Latest Trends In Human Resource Management

Origin Learning

'Human Resource Management is one of the crucial areas of overall business management. In fact, it can be aptly called as the backbone of an organisation because it provides the human capital without which it is simply not possible to conduct business. Changes in technology combined with a shift in industries’ dynamics and attitudes of people have transformed the role of HR into a more demanding, more agile one.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Top Tools for Learning: My Personal Top 10 for 2014

Jane Hart

'It’s only a couple of weeks before voting closes in the 8th Annual Learning Tools survey on Friday 19 September, which will result in the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 list being revealed on Monday 22 September. There have now been over 900 contributions to the survey, so I’d like to say a big […].

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Using a Facilitator Guide to Manage the Virtual Training Session

InSync Training

'What really goes on behind the scenes when you go live in a virtual classroom? How does the facilitator and the producer manage to conduct the session without speaking over one another? A critical part of any virtual training or blended learning course design is the facilitator guide. (You may call it running notes or a master.) The facilitator guide is a master reference document designed to help the facilitator and the producer to prepare for and deliver the program.

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Hike: How Free Offline Messaging Works

Origin Learning

'With the coming of affordable 2G and 3G networks for mobiles , it is like we have been hardwired to Instant Messaging (IM) on our phones. In fact, IM applications have evolved to provide much more than simple text-and-emoticon messaging. There’s voice notes, voice calls, video chats, audio/video sharing, location sharing and everything; organized in a way that makes communicating so much simple, handy and fun.

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Must reads from August 2014

Jane Hart

'I tweeted the links to well over 60 interesting articles and resources in August, and having done my monthly review of all those I shared, here are my recommendations of 7 articles to read (with some quoted passages as tasters) and 2 videos to watch from last month’s selection. 1 – In How the Web Became Our […].

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Learning Should Be Easy: Performance Support Delivers When Needed  

dVinci Interactive

'Yesterday, I was leaving my sister’s house when I saw a peacock walking down the street. A peacock walking down the street in central Pennsylvania? I kept staring at it to make sure, as I had never seen one in the wild in Pennsylvania or anywhere in the US, for that matter. Once I was confident, I reached for my phone. I Googled and within seconds, knew that peacocks were native to Asia and Africa, have established many feral colonies around the world, and have now become fairly common in rural

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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eLearning Book Review: The Accidental Instructional Designer

Web Courseworks

'Instructional designers and eLearning managers can learn something from Cammy Bean’s book. Here’s a question for the eLearning managers out there: How many members of your instructional design team got involved in the field by accident? As the demand for training within organizations, professional associations, industries, and businesses continues to outpace the supply of formally credentialed instructional designers, individuals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets are often recruited

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Using CRAP in ELearning Design

LearnDash

'Is your elearning designed with CRAP in mind? Well, it should! The CRAP method of instructional design doesn’t refer to the quality of your training, but rather the visual placement of the items you use within your elearning, particularly images and diagrams (but can also apply to text placement). Specifically, CRAP refers to Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity.

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Ideal Learning Event

Kapp Notes

'The best time to learn something is right before you need it. This is exactly the opposite of how many training programs work. Often and employee learns about a subject or topic in January with hopes that they will recall that information in June. The ideal learning event is quick and timely. Today employees want to find the answer and quickly move on.

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The Accidental Instructional Designer: More positive reviews!

Learning Visions

'I continue to be blown away by the great reviews of my book, The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age. Five stars for five Amazon reviews! Thanks to everyone who have bought a copy and who continue to spread the word. The book has definitely struck a chord in the e-Learning ID community. Today, Jon Aleckson of WebCourseworks described me as a "frenemy" but then went on to share that he bought five copies of the book for his ID team!

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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The Role of the Producer

InSync Training

'We have mentioned the role of a virtual classroom producer in several previous posts. As the support person on the delivery team, the producer is an invaluable resource before, during and after a virtual training event. He or she is there to support the facilitator, the participants and the technology. The producer makes the session run smoothly, troubleshooting technical issues for anyone attending the session, loading polls and even co-facilitating content (which helps change the dynamics wit

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3 Obvious Advantages of ELearning

LearnDash

'Today it is quite common to seek out online courses to learn a new skill, either for a job or for fun. There are many reasons why elearning is optimal for this kind of career enhancement, but over the years there seem to be three reasons that come up time-and-time again. You can take it whenever you want. The first of the three advantages of taking an online course is the fact that you will be able to take your course and test whenever you feel like it.

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Localization: Training and Development in Ireland

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jen Weaver      Most of us have limited awareness of Irish culture beyond Saint Patrick's Day and leprechauns. Never fear! Today's article explores some common cultural facts about the Irish and their expectations when it comes to training and development. Test Your Knowledge of Irish Culture. True or False. Ireland has one official language: Irish.

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A Not-So-Serious Debate on The Serious eLearning Manifesto

Learnnovators

THE QUOTE: “ We have been deeply concerned about the state of elearning. We’ve talked about it, lamented it, grumbled to each other, and wondered how things might change. Finally, we have decided to do something. The Serious eLearning Manifesto is the result.” – The Instigators (The Serious eLearning Manifesto). THE JOURNEY: Like many of you out there, we too are concerned at today’s state of e-learning which follows ‘ the same old way of doing things ’.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Machinima?

Clark Quinn

'As a fan of comics and animations (read: cartoons) in learning, I was pleased to see a small mention of comics in a twitter discussion (triggered by this post ). When I lauded the claim, I was asked what I think of machinima , and I had to think for a bit. My feelings are mixed, so it’s probably worth it to think them through out loud. So, first, machinima are animations made by using characters in 3D virtual worlds or computer games.

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Is it Percentage or Performance?

Living in Learning

'…and I tend to believe that the "environment" defining each organizations’ learning and performance ecosystem is unique. Attempting to put learning and performance support into specific sized boxes is an unnecessary complication. For this camper, the objective is clearly one of driving performance.versus adhering to concept percentages.

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Harrisburg JPL Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are the slides and additional information from my presentation in Harrisburg, PA to my good friends at JPL. Defining and Exploring Gamification from Karl Kapp. Gamification: Creating Engaged Learners: LTEN Keynote Slides from Karl Kapp. Here is some additional information. Videos. Games References. Zombies Run! The Lab. Financial Soccer. Rexona Teens Club.

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Ice bucket learning

From the Coleface

'If you’ve managed to avoid the ice bucket challenge , I can only commend you for managing to stay unplugged from social media on your holidays, you have surpassed me. For the rest of us, this is a cultural phenomenon, which naturally I look through the lens of L&D geekiness to see what we can learn. The act of filming a video clip and posting in on social media is commonplace.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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How to Hide or Reveal Objects in Adobe Captivate 8

eLearning Brothers

'If you are like most people upgrading to Adobe Captivate 8, you’ve seen the hide objects icon has moved. Do you really know where it is though? Don’t worry, if you don’t know where to look for this feature we have you covered. By clicking any object in your course, (or any object in your timeline), in the top right of Captivate you will reveal, the Properties and Timing tabs.

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A NOT-SO-SERIOUS DEBATE ON THE SERIOUS ELEARNING MANIFESTO

Learnnovators

THE QUOTE: “ We have been deeply concerned about the state of elearning. We’ve talked about it, lamented it, grumbled to each other, and wondered how things might change. Finally, we have decided to do something. The Serious eLearning Manifesto is the result.” – The Instigators (The Serious eLearning Manifesto) THE JOURNEY: Like many of you out there, we too are concerned at today’s state of e-learning which follows ‘ the same old way of doing things ’.

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Recording Skype and Google Hangout Video Calls

TechSmith Camtasia

'As a video creator, especially with screencasts, I am always looking for ways to enhance my content and improve the engagement of my viewers. One way is to introduce video of a subject matter expert or key person into the video. Unfortunately, I can’t always go onsite or the person is located too far away where I can capture video of them. With technology like Skype and Google Hangouts though, I don’t have to.

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Humanize Your eLearning Courses or Risk Losing Learners

SHIFT eLearning

'eLearning is a valuable tool in education. Whether the goal is training or professional development, even complete college degrees, eLearning is here and here to stay. This begs the question, how can we ensure that we maximize the potential of those who are engaged in eLearning? Certainly, if there is content we expect people to learn, we want that content to “stick” in their minds and to be something they can recall later.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.